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Developing (6)
- Feedback Loops How outputs become inputs — the engine of stability and runaway
- A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander's radical claim that quality is objective
- Selection How complex order emerges from dumb iteration
- Systems How complex systems behave, adapt, and produce unintended consequences
- Maintenance The invisible work that keeps things running
- Slack The productive value of unused capacity
Seeds (71)
- The Zettelkasten Method
- Abilene Paradox
- Adverse Selection
- Akerlof's Lemons
- Antifragility
- Cargo Cult
- Carrying Capacity
- Chilling Effects
- Coordination
- Donella Meadows
- Ecological Succession
- Ecology
- Entropy
- Exponential Growth
- Failure Modes
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- High Modernism
- Homeostasis
- Hormesis
- Iatrogenesis
- Incentives
- Information Cascades
- James C. Scott
- Keystone Species
- Local Optima
- McNamara Fallacy
- Metis
- Mithridatism
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Network Effects
- Nurse Crops
- O-Ring Theory
- Path Dependence
- Phase Transitions
- Pluralistic Ignorance
- Positional Hierarchy
- Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
- Power Laws
- Preference Falsification
- Principal-Agent Problem
- Redundancy
- Regression to the Mean
- Runaway Processes
- Schelling Segregation
- Second-Order Effects
- The Self-Sufficiency Paradox
- Shirky Principle
- Signal and Noise
- Skin in the Game
- Soil Food Web
- Specialization Trap
- Stacking Functions
- Steven Johnson
- Stigmergy
- Streetlight Effect
- Threshold Models
- Tragedy of the Anticommons
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Trophic Cascades
- Vaclav Smil
- Via Negativa
- Chesterton's Fence
- Cobra Effect
- Emergence
- Gall's Law
- Goodhart's Law
- Hysteresis
- Jevons Paradox
- Lindy Effect
- Legibility
- Shifting Baseline Syndrome